The only main road in Iceland goes around the outside. There's a very good reason for that – virtually all of the towns and villages in the country hunker down by the coast. To find out why that might be, you need to take a trip into the interior. The Interior : that is how all of the guide books...

The Kjolur is a highland road in Iceland which goes from just after the hamlet of Varmalid some kilometres west of Akureyri to The Golden Circle close to Reykjavik. Although it is passable without a 4WD, it would have been ny on impossible when we went despite it being August. Puddles were so...